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It does seem pretty bizarre doesn't it?
I've worked jobs where everyone must speak English, and it is the only language allowed on the job for safety reasons.

You have to know what someone is yelling about!!


Before I got into the computer industry I spent 20 years working in paint shops. One place I worked at (Stratigic Finishing), it was a high tech paint shop (we did a lot of work for Tektronics and other high-tech companies). Anyway, I was the swing shift manager. In the Portland area, there was some deal with the government for kick-backs for hiring new legal imigrants. So there I was managing three Russians, a French speaking Jamacan, a German, a Spaniard and two Koreans. Some nights things got a bit interesting when tempers got a bit hot, everyone yelling at each other in their own languages and nobody understanding anyone. None of them spoke English well, but they were all learning (part of the requirement for them to work there from the boss).

Soren

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